GRE Word List
PANACEA
a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all
The meaning of the word panacea is a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| temperament | characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| caption | the part of a legal document that shows where, when, and by what authority it was taken, found, or executed |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |